This easy summer fruit cake is wonderfully simple, yet impressive from the very first bite. Soft, fragrant with fruit and beautifully golden after baking – simply delicious. You can make it with any of your favourite fruits. Everyone in our house
Blackberry ice cream is especially popular in our house at this time of year. Every other day we’re picking a generous bowl of blackberries from the nearby hedgerows, and this ice cream is one of our favourite ways to use them. It’s absolutely delicious and dangerously addictive!
This recipe for a cake charmingly called Glacier Cake came from one of my readers, who happens to share my name (Dorotka, thank you!). Despite its name, it isn’t an ice cream cake. Instead, it features layers of sponge biscuits, creamy custard filling, fruit jelly
A delicious, moist tart with baked Greek yoghurt and summer berries, with the texture of a light cheesecake. The yoghurt filling is very simple to make – it is simply a matter of mixing the ingredients together. A small amount of golden syrup or honey gives the tart
A wonderfully quick tart with chocolate cream and fresh blackberries. I made it in between other baking projects, using leftover shortcrust pastry from previous tarts. There was a tub of mascarpone in the fridge that needed using immediately, and I had just brought
A shortcrust tart filled with white chocolate cream and topped with fresh summer fruits. The simple white chocolate and mascarpone cream is based on a recipe by Nigella Lawson from her book How to Be a Domestic Goddess. In the original version, the cream was served
An outstanding forest fruit cheesecake squares, topped with a vibrant berry mousse made from a mix of forest fruits – perfect to use frozen berries at this time of year. It’s a cheesecake you can make all year round :). The beautiful colour, light texture and
A wonderfully delicate blackberry cheesecake – absolutely delicious :). Thanks to baking in a water bath, it doesn’t sink and has a light, almost soufflé-like texture, similar to Japanese cheesecake. You can also bake it traditionally without a water bath
A fruit terrine is the perfect dessert for hot days :). There’s probably no better time to make it than mid-summer, when fresh seasonal fruits are at their best. A fruit terrine is simply an abundance of fruit set in clear jelly. Ready-made clear jelly is easy to find nowadays
A familiar, comforting crumble-style dessert. Quick, effortless and almost impossible to get wrong ;). Juicy blackberries and plums baked under a soft, cookie-like topping. Finished with flaked almonds, this cobbler bakes up beautifully golden – and tastes
The children went back to school today after nearly three weeks of Christmas holidays. After lunch I served their favourite cake – a rich chocolate cake that I bake and then top with fruit set in jelly. It’s not a brownie-style cake, not dense or heavy. The children
A small batch of jam, depending of course on how many blackberries you manage to pick. Combined with apples it tastes absolutely wonderful. This year we made only a small amount – just enough for everyday use. Highly recommended!
A rich and decadent Black Velvet Cake with a naturally deep, dark colour and a distinctive cocoa flavour that sets it apart from a classic chocolate cake. Wonderfully moist, soft and tender, it’s packed with intense chocolate notes. Finished with